Someone downvoted you for spitting facts? Interesting. The two US parties are both right of centre, which gives an immediate imbalance. Small parties can have some bearing on their senior partners policies, like you say. I’m assuming Germany has local elections, mayoral elections etc. surely some of the smaller, more niche parties, pick up seats in those if they happen. Trends identified by smaller parties will get picked up by bigger parties, so they serve their worth there, too.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Results of the last German Federal election:

It's really not 2 major parties and their junior partners anymore.

[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nice. I was hoping it might look a bit like this. Thanks for researching / posting.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, the day after Trump was elected, coalition talks between the non-nazi parties in Saxony, a German state, failed. Which means there is no likely way to build a government coalition without a re-election or admittting the far right party in that state now.
And the day after that, the center-left federal government coalition broke apart, leaving it without a majority, which will trigger an early federal election next year.
And with current sentiments, the result of that election will likely pose the exact same problem Saxony now has, but for all of Germany.

[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Whilst things do appear quite bleak across a lot of the European continent right now at least with a parliament that’s receptive to multiple parties there is a hope that one could quickly rise-up from the ashes of those defeated should the AfD (? + others) lurch the country far from the centre in the not too distant future. My confidence isn’t that high, but it is a possibility.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

Unfortunately, the only new development was another split of the left wing party into a new one that wants to appease Russia.

So we now have:
AfD (Nazis, Trumpists and Putin fans)
CDU/CSU (Conservatives increasingly considering a coalition with the nazis)
FDP (their entire goal is lowering taxes for the rich, and keeping petrol cars legal)
SPD (Center left, stagnating and inreasingly aimless)
Greens (unsuccessful in pushing preogress against the others, unpopular due to identity politics)
Linke (old school left wing, sunken to irrelevancy)
BSW (most recent split of the left, want to move foreign policy away from NATO towards Russia)

We now have Putin bootlickers all throughout the political spectrum.